Tulsi Prajapati encounter case: Hearing adjourned till 6th June

Mumbai: A sessions court here on Friday adjourned the hearing in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case, in which former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah is one of the accused, till June 6.

The court staff recorded the presence of all the advocates and some of the accused and deferred the matter for hearing on June 6, as the designated CBI judge was on leave.

A special CBI court had on May 9 issued summons to Shah and others accused in connection with the case. Earlier, the case was transferred from Gujarat to Mumbai court.

The CBI had filed a chargesheet in September 2013 naming Shah and 18 others, including several police officers.

According to CBI, gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were abducted by Gujarat's Anti-Terrorism Squad from Hyderabad and killed in an alleged fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005.

Following this, Tulsiram Prajapati, a key eye-witness to the encounter, was killed by police at Chapri village in Banaskantha district of Gujarat in December 2006.

According to CBI, Shah was allegedly involved in the conspiracy which led to the fake encounters.